Talk:New Zealand general election, 1896

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I am sourcing this from the 1896 and 1897 yearbooks; unfortunately they don't include party affiliations. If anyone can add more of them (there should be 39 liberals and 35 independents), then that would be good.

NZ Elections site gives figures of 39 Liberals, 25 "conservatives", 6 Independants and 4 Others (Māori). The conservatives (small "c") were only named as such by their opposing Liberals, they were not formally constituted as a policital party (New Zealand Reform Party) until 1909. Incidentally, the article seems to colour-code the parties as Reform/Yellow and Independant/Grey - could this be made clearer? The numbers don't quite add up but then I don't know how many of the Independants were Liberal supporters. Fanx 19:33, 5 January 2007 (UTC)